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- The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
- Herb Caen
- Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
- Lisa Alther
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
- Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", Channel 4 UK, 2006
- Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - ), Mary Richards, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
- The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.
- Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
- Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), December 11, 1964
- I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
- Jack London (1876 - 1916), Jack London's Tales of Adventure
- The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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